Vol. 11. No. 32
Marcalena Hess
Selected 1957
Poultry Queen
The 1957 County ..Poultry
Queen is Miss Marcalena Hess,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs Henry
Hess, Bareville. She was selected
at the Poultry Assn, banbeque
held Saturday at Lititz Springs
Park.
Her attendant is Miss Louise
of Mr and Mrs.
Norman M. Herr, 2237 Marietta
Ave, Rohrerstown.
The new queen is a 17 year
old senior at Warwick Union
High School. She is a former
delegate to state 4-H week, an
honor roll student and a mem
ber of the Future Nurses Club
at Warwick Union.
She has been a member of the
band for the past three years
and is now baton twirler with
the band.
, Outside of school, she is pres
ident of the Youth for Christ
club, a vice president of her
Sunday School Class and a past
president of the Oregon-Rose
ville Community 4-H club.
In the cooking contests, a man,
W R Hutchinson, 334 North
Charlotte (St., won first prize in
the senior division. His recipe
was Stuffed Chicken Legs_ a la
Hutch Miss Barbara Eby, 14,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs Rob
ert Eby, 1013 Lititz Pike, Lan
caster, won first place in the pu
nier contest by cooking South
ern Oven Fried Chicken
Runners-ulp were Mrs Helen
Hastings, Kirkwood, senior; and
Miss Mary Grube, R 3 Lititz, ju
nior.
All four prize winning recipes
are printed on the Women’s
Pages of this issue of Lancaster
Farming.
Other contestants, beside the
winners ware: Senior, Mrs Man
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Now Is The Time...
M. M. Smith, County Agricultural Agent
To Inspect Lightning Rods
The thunderstorm season is at hand and high temperatures us
ually bring severe storms With the great investment in buildings in
Lancaster County, lightning rods should be checked, they should be
connected from one end to another and be well grounded in moist
earth. Ground them deep enough to reach moisture, merely in the
ground for a few inches in dry weather may not do the job.
To Investigate Thoroughly
If you are faced with the investment in a bulk milk tank this
summer, counsel with your milk buyer, fieldman, milk inspector and
your equipment dealers. This is a long time investment with opera
tion costs and dependable service from the dealer as big items The
present trend is to install a tank large enough to bold six milkings.
We have an extension leaflet available on this sutqect
To Keep Steer Stables Clean
During periods of high temperatures livestock will suffer far
more from the heat u they are lying or stahled over a build-up of
manure, hot weather causes this manure pack to heat and will reduce
your gams. Barns that are kept clean, well bedded, in a darkened
condition and with plenty of cross ventilation will be best. A single
layer of burlap bag fastened over the windows will reduce fly trouble
and keep it cooler.
To Be Alert for Arrayworms
Some farms are heavily infected with army worms They can do
considerable damage in one night The pests resemble cutworms and
will attack all vegetation, they especially like small grain fields. Con
trol is to spray fields with heptachlor, chlordane, or toxaphene,
another control is to mix a poison bait and broadcast over the area
at the rate of 30 pounds an acre.
To Take Your Time Combining
Many bushels of grain are lost each year through too rapid oper
ation of the combine. This is proven by the amount of volunteer
growth in the fall. The machine will do a better job at moderate
speeds. Also allow time for the grain to dry in the morning or after
a rain, tough grain is poorer quality and may heat in the bin.
FINISHING TOUCHES are put on a con
sumer education display by Associate
County Agent Harry S. Sloat Saturday at
the Poultry Assn, berbeque. The display,
Waiting List
For BHIA Test
Nearly Empty
Directors of the Red Rose
Dairy Herd Improvement Assn,
announced this week that testers
in the Lancaster-Manheim area
are now able to add several
herds on a full test basis with no
waiting required.
Prior to this time, the waiting
list had been full for this area,
but the formation of a thirteenth
testing association and easing of
herd size requirement due to the
new record keeping system have
reduced the size of the list
For information on starting
Quarryville (Lancaster County) Pa., Friday, June 21, 1957
Schuylkill Co-op
Tour Visits
Poultry Center
Some 25 to 30_youngsters tour
ed the Lancaster Poultry Cent.
Monday as pait of a tour spon
sored by the Schuykill Count
Council of Farmer Cooperatives
Mrs Clara Kopf, office manage
of the exchange, and Daniel K
Good, poultry buyer, explainer
the functions of the exchange t
the young people.
testing, call the county extensio
office, Lancaster Express 4-6951
or see any tester of the Red Ros
Association
Two Holsteins
‘Excellent’
In Umble Herd
IBRATTLEBORO, VT Twc
registered .Holsteins owned bi
John M Umble, Box 155, Atglen
Pa, have been officially classl
fied ‘Excellent” the highes.
rating attainable in the type clas
sification program of The Hol
stem-Fnesian Assn, of America
This highly select designatioi
is applied only to animals scor
ing 90 or more of the 100 points
representing theoretical perfec
tion in body conformation.
Of more than 30,000 registered
Holstems officially classified for
type last year, only 305 were
rated “Excellent ’’
During a recent classification
of the Umble herd by R. E Stnc-
kler, lola, Kans, an official in
spector on the staff of the nation
al Holstein organization, AVonll
Sovereign Tiny Pabst and Hyup
Inka Sally scored 90 points each.
The classification program
in ' continuous operation since
1929 provides a universally
recognized method of comparing
the conformation of living anim
als with that of the True-Type
Holstein cow or bull. Participa
tion is currently at an all-time
high level.
made by James Porter, extension poultry
specialist at Penn State, shows some of
the versatility of eggs in cooking. (LF
Photo)
T i.u AS n. jl QUEEN is on the
blonde head of Miss Marcalena Hess, 17, R 1 Bareville, by
the T-a tinng Poultry Queen, Miss Nancy Newcomer, R 2 Lit
itz. Miss Hess was selected from a field of nine contestants
for the honor at the county Poultry Association barbeque
at Lititz Saturday. (LF Photo)
Federal Milk
Order Suspension
Hearing Set
Suspension of the Philadelphia
Federal milk marketing order will
ie the subject of a meeting sche
iuled for June 27 by the U S.
department of Agriculture. The
neetmg will be open at 10 a m. in
J. S. District Court Room No 1,
Tmted States Court House, Ninth
md Market Streets, Philadelphia,
a.
USDA announced that data,
views or arguments may be pre
sented to show whether or not the
'ederal order should be suspend
'd. The official notice of the meet
ng said that “since the Federal
irder, as a practical matter, is
raving no significant influence
non the prices being paid to
lairy farmers in the Philadelphia
market, there is serious doubt
hat it is effectuating the declar
'd policy of the Act ”
Behind the present action of
USDA is a history of dual but in
dependent regulation of the Phil
adelphia market by Federal Ord
er No 61 and by orders issued by
the Milk Control Commission of
the Commonwealth of Pennsyl
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$2 Per Year